St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-28

season. When an old friend
is greeted. and advances with her lips
the victim turns her face and the caress
falls aSkance. Possibly the very woman
who is opposed to the practice takes the
iniatiye, but her lips never meet lips.
She may kiss within fraction of your
mouth-kiss your chin, your cheek, or
your forehead; kiss your ''eyelid into
repOSe," or kiss your hair-but if she
has any training, socially, she will not
kiss your mouth. The repugnance to
training. In nearly all the famous col
leges for women there is special
teacher or doctress i'll physiol-
ogy, and i'll the sO-called
oral recitations the pernicious
effects of OSCILLATION are considered at
great length. By way of t0lerating
what seems to be a necessary evil, va
riOuS theories are advanced and various
provisions advocated. The girl who
comes from Smith college, NOrthamp-
ton, kisses on the oblique line that falls
from the left corner of your mouth, but
when kissed, is so adrOit in the way she
jerks her head that the point of saluta-
ton may be found on a radius from the
right of her demure little mouth. The
Nassar graduate kisses more than her
Smith college friend, but the chin is her
choice, as you will observe I'D an attempt
to salute her. The seniors from Wesley
press their kisses high upon the face,
almost under the sweep of the eyelash,
and the Lake Forest and Harvard An
nexmaidens kiss at point equally dis
tant from the nose and ear.
Noting is more dainty than the kiss of
well-bred chaperune, who, mindful of
the time and trouble spent over the
powder box, gently presses her lips on
your hair just north of your ear. The
minister's wife is another sweet soul,
who knows where kiss will do the least
harm, and her favorite method is an air
kiss, with Il gentle pressure of her cheek
to your cheek. The woman of fashion
who patrOnizes you and lets you visit
her while she is at her SieSta kisses you
anywhere about the triangle between
the eye, ear and hair line. She has
learned long ago about the incOmpati
bility of haste and grace, and as she adj
vances you see her lips turn in, and
simultaneous with the kiss Is thick,
viscous noise that sounds like the tear
ing of middle-aged marshmallOW drop.
Married women are more addicted to
kissing than single ones, as every lady
knows who goes calling and they are
the very kisses that Young woman
least enjoys for the reason their lips are
always wet. Kissing the face of an If
regularly powdered, soapy smelling
dame is about as unsavory a pastime as
gathering bouquet of dandeliOns. The
West side women outkiss any other
division of Chicago. The South siders
kiss discreetly and the bellies and ma
irons along the lake shore are too cos
mOpOlitan to waste their sweetness.
Their greeting is the handshaking pre-
scribed by London and Endorsed by the
patricianS of New York and Murray
Hill. Meet a Rush or Cass street lady
and she frankly proffers her easily
gloyed hand and shakes from the Shout
der to a One-twO count. Her pretty
cousin on Bellevue avenue and lake
shore drive is more artistic, and her
arm is rigid from the elbow up. Go
still further north, and the carefully
schooled young wife and her queenly
sister shake hands, but never an inch
of the arm.